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To develop and evaluate a sustainable school-based intervention to deliver to primary school children that decreases emotional and behavioural problems, encourages resilience and improves the school environment.

A school based programme using teachers as the key mediators can have a positive impact on the emotions and behaviour of children, improve their resilience and social skills and also improve the school climate and general school performance

An intervention at both the individual and school level will have greatest effect

Continuation with this intervention will have positive impacts on the life skills of the children, on the school and the community in general

Children exposed to chronic and ongoing adversities; in particular children whose lives are affected by the escalating HIV/AIDS pandemic. (living with chronic illness, dying, bereavement, orphans, economic deprivation, multilevel vulnerabilities caused by the pandemic, prime age adults, needs of children easily overlooked)

Agincourt DSS site has unique opportunities for accessing data from the past, present and future also provides a population context to the school data

International partnership to build on the combined expertise on the best understanding in terms of mental and public health

Develop a generic framework that can be replicated in different contexts and allow flexibility to ensure that existing community and individual assets and cultural strategies can be incorporated

Develop a conceptual framework/theoretical model incorporating the range of theoretical perspectives on how to promote children’s resilience in context of ongoing life stressors on a background of various levels of cumulative disadvantage

Prof SteveTollman: member of research and trouble shooting team, supporting proposal development, enable the project within Agincourt, Wits and SA

Dr KathyKahn: involved in supporting intervention development, strategy, access and relevant developments within Agincourt. Assist on working out the budget. Finding synergies with the child development project that is also in its development phase.

Mark Collinson: leader of DSS on the ground, including managing the DSS team to facilitating and conducting data processing, data requests and secondary data analysis.

Prof Deborah Prothrow-Stith: member of research and trouble shooting team, support intervention development and finding funding opportunities, facilitate proposal development, supporting Mercy and Rhian in career development

Prof AlanStein: member of research and trouble-shooting team, facilitate proposal development and finding funding opportunities

Rhian Evans: contact person on Agincourt site, helping collecting some local information, facilitate contacts with schools and key education people, link role and member of the research team, inform to the communities and link back to communities